Does MK5 flood?

Only lower-likelihood flood risk is recorded in MK5: none of its 7 listed postcodes goes beyond the Low band. The MK5 postcode district covers Shenley Brook End, Loughton & Shenley, close to Water Eaton, Haversham, Willen, and surrounding villages in parts of City of Milton Keynes and Central Bedfordshire.

7 postcodes in the MK5 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 7 low. A postcode not listed here has no properties in any recorded risk band (which is good news, but never proof it cannot flood).

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Which MK5 postcodes are at risk?

MK5 7AD up to Low MK5 7EL up to Low MK5 7ET up to Low MK5 7HN up to Low MK5 7JD up to Low MK5 8AX up to Low MK5 8AZ up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near MK5

The rivers that matter here, each monitored live on FloodRadar:

Bletchley on the River Ouzel — 6 km away, highest on record 1.90m
WATERHALL BLETCHLEY FGS — 6 km away
Haversham on the River Great Ouse — 6.5 km away, highest on record 2.98m
WILLEN GS — 6.5 km away

65 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (57 at warning level or above), most recently 17 February 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

Recorded flood extents near the district (Environment Agency record):

August 1980 (1980) — about 0.6 km from the centre

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

MK4 MK6 MK3 MK7 MK2 MK10 MK11 MK12

Band = the worst likelihood band of any property in that postcode (EA Risk of Flooding from Rivers & Sea, defence-adjusted, area-level). Check any postcode in detail — or get the full £19 property report — at the property flood-risk report. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved. Some features of this map are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH). © Crown Copyright and Database Rights 2025 OS AC0000807064. This product is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, the copyright in which is owned by Royal Mail Group Limited and/or Royal Mail Group plc. All rights reserved. Licence number AC0000807064.